American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Leaving Poetry Behind 1Legacy and Revision in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Elegy 33Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning 80Taking Care of the Dead: Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy 108Elegy's Child: Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation 143Mourning of the Disprized: African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln 180Retrievements out of the Night: Whitman and the Future of Elegy 233Afterword: Objects 286Notes 295Index 335
